Kenneth Elzinga on Teaching Economics and More - Deep Dive
April 24, 2022
Over a friendly dinner on vacation, Kenneth Elzinga and his friend Bill Bright set out to create an economic detective under the pseudonym Marshall Jevons (nods to Alfred Marshall and William Stanley Jevons). Their protagonist, unabashedly modeled on Milton Friedman, is diminutive, balding, and conducts investigations governed by the laws of microeconomics. This series is just one of many ways Elzinga has been called and answered that call in his decades long career as an economic educator.
Over a friendly dinner on vacation, Kenneth Elzinga and his friend Bill Bright set out to create an economic detective under the pseudonym Marshall Jevons (nods to Alfred Marshall and William Stanley Jevons). Their protagonist, unabashedly modeled on Milton Friedman, is diminutive, balding, and conducts investigations governed by the laws of microeconomics. This series is just one of many ways Elzinga has been called and answered that call in his decades long career as an economic educator.
Kenneth G. Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. Elzinga and host Juliette Sellgren talk about Elzinga's academic work, popular economics mystery series, his Christian faith, and many other topics as well.
Elzinga is the recipient of many teaching awards and the Southern Economic Association has named their teaching award for him. Elzinga has over one hundred publications and has taught hundreds of thousands of students over the course of his teaching career - including Great Antidote host Juliette Sellgren at the University of Virginia. He researches in the area of antitrust economics and has testified in precedent-setting antitrust cases including the Supreme Court case: Matsushita, Brooke Group, and Leegin. Elzinga is also known as the coauthor for four economic mystery novels (under the pen name Marshall Jevons).
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Elzinga is the recipient of many teaching awards and the Southern Economic Association has named their teaching award for him. Elzinga has over one hundred publications and has taught hundreds of thousands of students over the course of his teaching career - including Great Antidote host Juliette Sellgren at the University of Virginia. He researches in the area of antitrust economics and has testified in precedent-setting antitrust cases including the Supreme Court case: Matsushita, Brooke Group, and Leegin. Elzinga is also known as the coauthor for four economic mystery novels (under the pen name Marshall Jevons).
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Personal profile, Faculty profile, Christian Fellowship Ministry profile, Wikipedia profile,
Personal profile, Faculty profile, Christian Fellowship Ministry profile, Wikipedia profile,
- Book: The Antitrust Penalties: A Study in Law and Economics
- Marshall Jevons (pseudonym with coauthor William Breit)
- Videos on Youtube
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- Vocational calling
- Liberal Arts
- Alfred Marshall
- William Stanley Jevons
- Murder at the Margin: A Henry Spearman Mystery
- Milton Friendman
- Mont Pelerin Society
- Don Boudreau & David Henderson on Ezra Klein quote, “Boudreaux on Economic Principles” at EconLib
- Quote, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance”
- Origin of the phrase “Dismal Science” at EconLib
- Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Vision: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
- Southern Economic Association; Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award | Southern Economic Association
- Nadine Strossen
- Jonathan Rauch
- Supreme Court Case: Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. :: 551 U.S. 877 (2007) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center
- Federal Trade Commission
- Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
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